McClatchy: U.S. to Pakistan: Use military force to rout al Qaida

U.S. to Pakistan: Use military force to rout al Qaida
By Renee Schoof and Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is pressing Pakistan to use its military to rout al Qaida from havens on its soil, a top State Department official told a Senate panel on Wednesday.

"We can do a better job in trying to elicit a better performance from the Pakistani military inside their border," Nicholas Burns, undersecretary of state for political affairs, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Burns said Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, had a strong commitment to fight the Taliban and al Qaida.

But when pressed by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., on whether Musharraf was going after al Qaida, Burns replied cautiously: "We need to see more effective action."

A recent National Intelligence Estimate, a consensus report from American intelligence agencies, found that al Qaida has reconstituted and has found haven in Pakistan to regroup and plot attacks.

Kerry said Afghanistan couldn't be stabilized if its enemies could hide across the border in Pakistan.

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Most in Pakistan are very much fundamentalist. We are giving India nuclear technology and Pakistan does not like that one bit...We are almost demanding their government to open fire on their outlying villages. Al Qaeda is just a name. People are people and they all blend together over there. They are mostly in agreement with the way the world has been headed. Pakistan is likely to be the detonator....